News from the Honors Program

Accolades

• Congratulations to the 2009-2010 Honors Program Graduates:

Andrew Fry, Megan Rosequist, Katy Falkenborg, and Chelsie Whitmer

• Congratulations also goes to:

• Kevin Faulk for being named the Outstanding Honors Program student, 2009-2010

• Dr. Huggard for being chosen Outstanding Honors Faculty, 2009-2010.

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• Honors Program Spring 2010 Field Trip

On April 23rd Honors students along with Dr.'s Brown and Huggard traveled to Tulsa and visited the Gilcrease and Philbrook Museums. Pictured from left are, Dr. Brown, Mary Ann, Mark, Alex, Lacey, Tes, Kevin, and Amy. Dr. Huggard snapped the photo.

Honors Haiti Project

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PowerPoint Presentations on Haiti

A Nation in Peril - History Culture and State of Haiti

History

International Relations

Health and Education

Medicine and Health

Culture 1

Culture 2

Culture 3

Honors students in Dr. Chris Huggard's Western Civilization II Honors and Dr. Yanick St. Jean's Sociology Honors classes collaborated on the Honors Haiti Project. Students presented their findings on Haitian culture, history, health, and education at the First Friday International Festival and on the NWACC campus. Students are also accepting donations for the Haitian Earthquake Relief Fund. For more information, contact Dr. Huggard.

• Honors Program sponsors 2nd Annual Themed Semester on the Caribbean, Spring 2010

This semester we have several events planned from faculty presentations on the history, culture, religions, and geology of the Caribbean to student roundtable discussions, to Caribbean food and entertainment. Honors students in Dr. Chris Huggard and Dr. Yanick St. Jean's classes are also collaborating on a service-learning project on Haiti. Look for campus announcements for individual events.

• Honors Program offers first Study Abroad opportunity, May 2010

The tour is organized through EF Tours. Visit the EF Tours website to view details. All payment and insurance arrangements should be made through EF Tours. For more information about our Study Abroad to Greece, please click on this link or contact Dr. Brown at 619-2231. Be sure to enter our tour number, 465125, if you decide to enroll. The tour is open to all NWACC students and members of the community.

• Honors students travel to Little Rock, Fall 2009

Honors students traveled to the Clinton Library and to the Arkansas Arts Center to vew a special exhibit on the Pharaohs last Fall. Though the capacity of an eight-passenger van is questionable, everyone had a great time. In the Spring we'll head over to Tulsa for a day.

• Honors Program graduates, May, 2009

The Honors Program congratulates Caleb Smith, Maria Pulido, and Guadalupe Garcia, Fall 2008 and Spring 2009 Honors Program Graduates!

• Honors Scholarship Recipients, 2009-2010

Congratulations scholarship winners! Bobi Beebe, Hafsa Fateh, Mark Dillard, and Gavin Smith were awarded scholarships for the 2009-2010 academic year.

Honors scholarships are awarded annually. Honors Program members will be notified if additional scholarship funds become available during the school year.

• Honors Program sponsors college's 1st themed semester, Spring 2009

The Honors Program sponsored NWACC's first themed semester, NWACC SEAS, the Southeast Asia Semester last Spring. It was a HUGE success!

A special thank you goes out to Honors faculty members Doug Krueger and Val Pickett who gave presentations on SE Asian religions. Our headlining performer was Tou Ger Xiong, a Hmong comedian/storyteller who performed to a capacity crowd in White Auditorium on April 29th. Thanks to Lou Lo, Dale Montgomery, and Viviana Pagan who helped make the event such a success.

History & Political Science students visit first colony & nation's capitol

As part of their History of the American People to 1877 Honors and American National Government Honors courses, students visited Jamestown, VA, the site of the first successful British colony, Colonial Williamsburg, VA, and Washington, D.C. Students viewed an active excavation site at Jamestown where the original settlement stood in 1607. Students knocked back ale and biscuits at a period tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, and sat in on the reading of a verdict at the U.S. Supreme Court. See images below chronicling their travels. The courses were in conjunction with the Honors Summer Travel Program. Ask us where we're going next!

Honors students conduct forum

NWACC's Honors Seminar Students recently organized and offered an open forum for the Upward Bound Students. The forum took place in Burns Hall 2453-2473 on March 11 with more than 40 students and parents attending the stimulating discussion. The forum, titled "Building Blocks: Constructing Lives in a Diverse Northwest Arkansas," resulted in ideas for numerous Service Learning projects that future NWACC students can implement to meet community needs related to diversity.

Below are some highlights from that event.

The Honors Students make final preparations for the forum in the early afternoon of March 11. From left to right are: Ian Robertson, Inder Pal Singh, Amanda Culmer, Melanie Beal, Maria Pulido, Becky Hudson, Chris Cuchia, and Caleb Mosby.

Here Amanda Culmer leads the discussion on the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of living in Northwest Arkansas. She, along with the other honors students, was trained on February 7 by Dr. Virginia York of the Community College National Center for Civic Engagement to plan, organize, and offer a forum on immigration (see last photograph below) . The Upward Bound students really enjoyed the conversation and came up with some good ideas for NWACC student Service Learning projects.

Ian Robertson lead the discussion of the Economic Effects of Diversity and in the background Chris Cuchia and Valerie Learned serve as recorders, taking notes on the advantages and concerns of diversity and then also record the ideas for college student projects.

Here Caleb Mosby wraps up the forum by asking the Upward Bound students to assess their comments. It is clear by all the recorded comments on the wall that the students were really engaged in the discussion and were very interested in letting the NWACC's honors students know how they felt and what they believed could be done by future college students to meet community needs in diversity.

 

 

 

Dr. Virginia York, of the Community College National Center for Civic Engagement, trains the honors students on how to plan, prepare for, and offer a forum. She made it clear to Melanie Beal (in the foreground) and the other students that a forum is a discussion designed to solve problems, not a debate that results in a winner and a loser.

 

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